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Red Bee Media's planned cuts to redundancy pay provoke industrial action ballot
DATELINE: 13/3/10Members of media and entertainment union, BECTU, at Red Bee Media are to take part in a ballot for industrial action to defend their redundancy rights. Management wants to cut future redundancy entitlements for existing staff by half from 1 July and has described its proposals as 'balanced and fair'. Without the current challenge, new staff joining Red Bee Media from next month would accrue redundancy pay rights based on just two weeks' pay for each year of service instead of the existing one month per year of service.
Fighting the BBC cuts gets parliamentary support
DATELINE: 13/3/10The campaign to save the BBC from £600 million in management-imposed cuts is moving to parliament, with a meeting at the House of Commons scheduled for Monday 22 March from 6.00pm to 8.00pm. There's also an early day motion signed by seventy MPs so far.And, of course, more than a hundred thousand people have signed petitions calling on the BBC Trust to do its job and defend public service broadcasting, rather than cave in to the schemes of corporate media giants to dismantle the BBC. The numbers are growing every day.
Democracy without journalists: the crisis in local news
DATELINE: 11/3/10
You are particularly welcome to this major event on 17 March, 2.00pm - 4.00pm in the Thatcher Room, Portcullis House, Bridge Street, London SW1P 3JA, to highlight the importance of robust news coverage for local democracy and propose concrete steps to halt the decline in local news. Attendance is free, but places are limited. Please email Joanna Redden to reserve a place.
Majority of Brussels lobby firms avoid registry
DATELINE: 11/3/10Over 60 percent of Brussels-based lobbyingconsultancies have yet to sign up to the European Commission's lobbyregister, almost two years after it was first launched. According to a fresh survey of the commission's initiative by the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (Alter-EU) to be published on Thursday (11 March), of the 286 lobbying consultancies known to provide such services in the European capital, only 112, or 39.2 percent have signed up to the registry.
Max Clifford drops News of the World phone hacking action in £1m deal
DATELINE: 10/3/10Tabloid accused of buying silence after persuading celebrity PR agent to drop case over interception of voicemail messages.
The News of the World was tonight (Tuesday 9 March 2010) accused of buying silence in the phone-hacking scandal after it agreed to pay more than £1m to persuade the celebrity PR agent Max Clifford to drop his legal action over the interception of his voicemail messages. The settlement means that there will now be no disclosure of court-ordered evidence which threatened to expose the involvement of the newspaper's journalists in a range of illegal information-gathering by private investigators.
BBC cuts - make your voice heard
DATELINE: 8/3/10
On 2 March the BBC Trust published a proposed strategy for the BBC inviting views from the public and industry on the future direction for the corporation (see NUJ responsearfticle dated 1 March below). It's now time for you to have your say.
One in five staff cull keeps Trinity Mirror in profit
Straw acts on libel fees
NUJ pledges to fight BBC cuts package
Welcome for decision to drop proposed cabinet papers exemption
IFJ report on hacking row exposes weakness of UK Press Complaints Commission:
BBC announcement is capitulation to Murdoch
NoW accused of tapping 'amnesia'
Stephen Gately the CPBF and the PPC
Gately column complaint rejected
Stars of UK comedy and science stand up against unfair libel laws
EFJ conference calls on EU to act on media and journalism crisis
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Democracy without journalists: the crisis in local news
DATELINE: 11/3/10You are particularly welcome to this major event on 17 March, 2.00pm - 4.00pm in the Thatcher Room, Portcullis House, Bridge Street, London SW1P 3JA, to highlight the importance of robust news coverage for local democracy and propose concrete steps to halt the decline in local news. Attendance is free, but places are limited. Please email Joanna Redden to reserve a place.
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al jazeera
AllConferences.Com - Directory of Conferences, conventions, exhibits, seminars, workshops, events, trade shows and business meetings. Includes calendar, dates, location, web site, contact and registration information.
Alliance for Lobbying Transparency
allmediascotland - a directory and portal for the scottish media industry
alter-eu - The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation
arab media watch
archives of the weekly spin
bad subjects: political education for everyday life - from the University of California at Berkeley
bectu (broadcast, entertainment, cinematograph and theatre union)
Brass Check TV
British Helsinki Human Rights Group
british journalism review
campaign for freedom of information
Civil Rights Movement
columbia journalism review
committee to protect journalists
community media association
Corporate Europe Observatory: CEO is a European-based research and campaign group targeting the threats to democracy, equity, social justice and the environment posed by the economic and political power of corporations and their lobby groups.
corporation watch (US)
cris - the campaign for communication rights in the information society
cultural studies mailing list (FAQ)
Disinformation - US site combining analysis, rumour, paranoia and alternative lifestyles.
ePolitix - get your own e-mail news feed
europa: 'an internet site covering Europe as a common area of freedom, security and justice' - web site of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Justice and Home Affairs
European Institute for the Media
european journalism centre
global journalism review
global village cat - access TV worldwide
globalvision news network (a mediachannel initiative): GVNews.Net is a global syndicate of more than 345 independent local and regional news organizations that have joined to provide fresh and intelligent perspectives on global events — as seen through the eyes of experienced, professional journalists who are native to the regions about which they report.
ideosphere: non-profit media consultancy (sweden)
Index on Censorship - international campaign for free expression, based on publication and website
indymedia: independent media
information clearing house
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
international federation of journalists
International Network for Cultural Diversity
International News Safety Institute
International Women's Media Foundation - US based organisation aimed at increasing women's participation in the media.
jihad unspun - 'a clear view of the war against terror'
kurdishmedia.com
Liberty's 'yourrights' online provides information and access to advice on human rights issues such as free expression and privacy as well as information on the specific rights of various individuals and groups.
media alliance (US)
media communications policy resources (from Katharine Sarikakis of Leeds university)
media reform - us-based campaigning group also known as Free Press
media watch mailing list
media workers against the war
medialens: the real news from the US
michael moore's site
Middle East Media Guide
national union of journalists (UK & Ireland)
New book: Creating Fear - News and the construction of crisis, David L. Altheide
new internationalist
new internationalist online
notwar.net - quirky international peace group with details of hundreds of campaigning peace groups
NUJ Brussels branch
NUJ Glasgow branch
NUJ New Media industrial council
Observatoire Français des Médias (French only)
Ofcom website - the uk's broadcasting and telecoms regulator
One World
One World TV
pr watch's 'spin of the day'
Pressnet: Journalists, Journalism and Mass Media in Internet.
presswise
Public Voice, a voluntary sector coalition campaigning on citizens' interests in communications.
RAM (Refugees, Asylum-seekers and the Mass media) project bulletin
red pepper - campaigning journal & web site
save welsh tv
Schnews - weekly newsletter from: Justice? Brighton's Direct Action Collective
send e-mail to altmedia (you have to subscribe first)
signs of the times
sp media watch
spinwatch - monitoring PR and spin in the public interest (independent UK-based group)
stop war web site
subscribe to 'the weekly spin'
Taking Sides weblog on IRAQ
the memory hole
truth out - a US Democrat news site
undercurrents (for the news you don't see on the news)
US Free Press
vertigo - independent UK film magazine
VLV (Voice of the Listener and Viewer - working for quality and diversity in British broadcasting)
who owns what - from columbia journalism review
wordpower: books to change our world
working for change (US)
world association for christian communication (WACC)
world association of community radio broadcasters
world commission on the social dimension of globalisation (ilo)
writers' guild of great britain
